Scientists say the findings help explain how life can exist in extreme environments using the chemical compound methane ...

Astrobiology poses fundamental questions about life in the universe: How did it emerge? Is there life beyond Earth? In a ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests.

Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be ...

Scientists have synthesized methanetetrol, an elusive alcohol that could be the foundation of alien life. Chemists have ...

Scientists from MIT explore how life could exist without water, using ionic liquids in extreme planetary environments.

Earlier this year, astronomers reported possible evidence of life on another planet – but new observations from JWST suggest ...

A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...